[PATCH 00/13] arch, mm: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM

Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27T11:29:42Z

Hi,

It's been a while since DISCONTIGMEM is generally considered deprecated,
but it is still used by four architectures. This set replaces DISCONTIGMEM
with a different way to handle holes in the memory map and marks
DISCONTIGMEM configuration as BROKEN in Kconfigs of these architectures with
the intention to completely remove it in several releases.

While for 64-bit alpha and ia64 the switch to SPARSEMEM is quite obvious
and was a matter of moving some bits around, for smaller 32-bit arc and
m68k SPARSEMEM is not necessarily the best thing to do.

On 32-bit machines SPARSEMEM would require large sections to make section
index fit in the page flags, but larger sections mean that more memory is
wasted for unused memory map.

Besides, pfn_to_page() and page_to_pfn() become less efficient, at least on
arc.

So I've decided to generalize arm's approach for freeing of unused parts of
the memory map with FLATMEM and enable it for both arc and m68k. The
details are in the description of patches 10 (arc) and 13 (m68k).

Mike Rapoport (13):
alpha: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM
ia64: remove custom __early_pfn_to_nid()
ia64: remove 'ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32' statements
ia64: discontig: paging_init(): remove local max_pfn calculation
ia64: split virtual map initialization out of paging_init()
ia64: forbid using VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP with FLATMEM
ia64: make SPARSEMEM default and disable DISCONTIGMEM
arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
arm, arm64: move free_unused_memmap() to generic mm
arc: use FLATMEM with freeing of unused memory map instead of DISCONTIGMEM
m68k/mm: make node data and node setup depend on CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
m68k/mm: enable use of generic memory_model.h for !DISCONTIGMEM
m68k: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM

Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst | 3 +-
arch/Kconfig | 3 ++
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 8 +++
arch/alpha/include/asm/mmzone.h | 14 +----
arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h | 7 +--
arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++---
arch/alpha/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 18 +++++++
arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c | 1 +
arch/arc/Kconfig | 3 +-
arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 20 ++++++--
arch/arc/mm/init.c | 29 ++++++++---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 10 +---
arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-davinci/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-tango/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 78 ----------------------------
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 +-
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 68 ------------------------
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 11 ++--
arch/ia64/include/asm/meminit.h | 2 -
arch/ia64/mm/contig.c | 58 ++++++++++-----------
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 44 ++++++++--------
arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 14 -----
arch/ia64/mm/numa.c | 30 -----------
arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu | 32 ++++++++++--
arch/m68k/include/asm/page.h | 2 +
arch/m68k/include/asm/page_mm.h | 7 ++-
arch/m68k/include/asm/virtconvert.h | 2 +-
arch/m68k/mm/init.c | 8 +--
fs/proc/kcore.c | 2 -
include/linux/mm.h | 3 --
include/linux/mmzone.h | 42 ---------------
mm/memblock.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/mmzone.c | 14 -----
mm/page_alloc.c | 16 ++++--
mm/vmstat.c | 4 --
40 files changed, 272 insertions(+), 384 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/asm/sparsemem.h

base-commit: 3650b228f83adda7e5ee532e2b90429c03f7b9ec
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